Reforming the U.S. healthcare system has become more of a reality after a key Senate committee approved a bill to do just that. The finance panel backed the measure by 14 to 9 votes.
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The World Bank’s Doing Business report: Reforming through the tough times
September 10th, 2009 |
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A World Bank report makes surprisingly cheerful reading
WITH falling sales, rising public indebtedness and surging anti-business sentiment, the past year has been a tough one both for business people and for pro-business policymakers. “It is not just a crisis of the economy,” says Mahmoud Mohieldin, Egypt’s minister of investment. “It is a crisis of economic thinking. It is a crisis that is confusing many reformers.”
Even so, the World Bank’s annual Doing Business report*, which tracks changes to the regulations that affect business, suggests that governments have handled the storm well. In the year since June 2008, 131 countries introduced 287 pro-business reforms—20% more than in the previous 12 months and more than in any year since the World Bank started the survey in 2004. …
Peter A. Ubel: Reforming Not Only How We Pay Physicians, but How Much We Pay Them
July 23rd, 2009 |
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Because of our strange reimbursement system, many primary care physicians receive more money performing a five-minute skin biopsy than they do conducting an hour-long history and physical.
Miles J. Zaremski: Reforming the Healthcare System: Why It Can Happen Now
July 22nd, 2009 |
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A countless number of ordinary folks are driving hundreds of miles to be seen for health issues because they can’t afford to pay for treatment back home. It is a sad tale indeed.
Rep. Patrick Kennedy: In Reforming Our Health Care System, We’d Be Crazy to Ignore the Mind
July 22nd, 2009 |
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In a country where less than a third of people with mental illnesses get the care they need, the importance of the mental health parity law cannot be understated.